Preliminary Reports Focus On Turbine Disk Fatigue
Cracks

The National Transportation Safety Board announced Tuesday it
will investigate an uncontained engine failure on an American
Airlines Boeing 767 that was undergoing testing June 2 at Los
Angeles International Airport.

"I Did All I Could To Avoid Crash"

Describing himself as an experienced pilot who ran into a tough
situation, South Carolina Lieutenant Governor Andre Bauer says he
is absolutely confident there was nothing more he could have done
to prevent the crash of his Mooney M20E as it was taking off from a
grass strip in Blacksburg last month.

Ah, Pork...

Money earmarked to be used by NASA to send scientific probes to
distant planets and return astronauts to the moon, may be used
instead for projects closer to home that have little to nothing to
do with exploring space.

V2500 Problems Traced To Parts From Scottish Plant

Aviation engine maker Rolls-Royce is recalling faulty airplane
engine parts manufactured at its Inchinnan plant in Renfrewshire,
Scotland, after complaints of three inflight engine shutdowns came
to light.

As Many As 10 Airliners To Be Returned

Mi-8 Went Down In January

This weekend, a coalition recovery team retrieved the remains of
seven international aid workers who were killed when their
helicopter crashed in eastern Afghanistan last January, military
officials reported.

Aero-Linx!

Aero-Terms!

A satellite in circular orbit around the Earth's equator at
23,000 miles altitude (36,000 km) will remain stationary over the
same location on Earth (i.e., the spacecraft goes around once in
its orbit for every revolution of the Earth).